DAIRY INDUSTRY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 239, 23 July 1935, Page 7

DAIRY INDUSTRY

COMMISSION OF AGRICULTURE.

PRELIMINARY WORK IN HAND. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, July 22.^ The preliminary work of the Executive Commission of Agriculture was described by Sir’ Francis Frazer (deputy chairman of the Commission). Sir Francis, in company with Mr G. A. Duncan and Mr David Jones, members of the Commission, ailived in Auckland on Sunday from the Waikato, after a series of discussions with representatives of the dairy industry. The Commission had associated with it Mr C. A. Marcliant and Mr W. E. Hale, members of the New Zealand Dairy Board. Much of the work already done by the Commission, said! Sir Francis Frazer, had) been purely of a preliminary nature, and the recent visit to the Waikato was the first occasion on which it had left Wellington since its inauguration. Progress had been made in dealing with various matters that had accumulated, and the Commission was already functioning as a co-ordin-ating body between the Departments of. Agriculture, of Scientific and Industrial Research, and of Industries and Commerce, and the Dairy Produce Board, with each of which it was associated in a number of matters. “Our visit to the Waikato,” ;Sir Francis Frazer said, “was to open negotiations with different dairy companies on matters of zoning, and rationalisation of the collection of cream supplies. It was the first visit of the Commission, and was made in conjunction with members of the Dairy Board. As both bodies have many interests in common, it was decided that we should have associated with us two members of the board so that both bodies should) be fully acquainted with the position. In this wav any regulations that the Commission may find necessary to institute can be fully discussed with the Board before being put into operation.” ; While in Hamilton, the combined party met in all the representatives of nine dairy companies, said Sir Francis Frazer, and on Saturday paid a visit to Raglan. What had been . discussed had been of a confidential nature ; but the general aim had been the exploring of possible bases for agreement between the different interests concerned. In Auckland Sir Francis Frazer and his colleagues had a full day discussing various matters connected with the dairy industry, and left for Wellington by the-'Limited express to-night. Denying a rumour that he might shortly go. to Groat Britain study marketing qonditjions, Sir Francis Frazer said that no consideration had been given to the matter, and that the Commission had far too much work ahead of it for such a visit to be a possibility in the near future.